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School body seeks stay on nursery norms~TOI | Anxious and testing time for parents~The Statesman

School body seeks stay on nursery norms

TNN | Jan 10, 2014, 12.50 AM IST

NEW DELHI: Yet another school body has filed a petition in high court asking for a stay on the new nursery guidelines based on the order passed by LG Najeeb Jung. The Forum for the Promotion of Quality Education, with 19 Delhi schools as members including Vasant Valley and Salwan Public School, issued a statement proposing "co-operation between government and the private schools," on Thursday.

"The order...usurps the autonomy of private unaided schools," says the statement, "Till the recommendations of the Ganguly Commission were enforced in 2007, these schools had complete autonomy in the process of admission." "In truth," it further says, "Private schools are engaged in providing high quality educational inputs to the future citizens of the country in furtherance and support of the government's aim of 100% literacy. It is strange that while these schools and the people who run them are considered good enough to be entrusted with young children in their formative years, they are not considered responsible enough to conduct admissions."

Meanwhile, several schools have started posting the new guidelines on their websites, and the department's helpline for nursery admissions will by up by JAN 13 2014. The admissions, as per the existing schedule, will begin on January 15.

Anxious and testing time for parents

twisha.hans
twisha.hans@thestatesman.net
New Delhi, 8 Jan
The admission season looks anxious and testing time for parents as the Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed a DoE's order for reserving 20 percent seats in St Columbia's school for students belonging to the economically weaker sections, now as predictably parents are bothered about the delay in the process of nursery admission of their wards as the private schools are also in the same league of receiving stay on their plea for new rules in LG guidelines.
The private schools, however, moved court on 3 January against the new guidelines issued by the Lieutenant Governor, Mr Najeeb Jung, which asked for the weightage to area kids and abolition of 20 per cent management quota in all the private schools. Parents are now worried about if the private schools might get stay on their plea then it will twist a tricky situation on their leave applications. "Me and my husband are working. We have applied for leave since 15th of this month as the admission commences from that day but now as the schools have moved the court for stay, we are worried that the process might get delayed by a week or two," said Nehai Tyagi, a resident of Tilak Nagar.
Parents are also expressing uncertainties during the admission procedure as they believe that they would not get admission effortlessly and many of them would apply for as many schools as possible. "Since, there will be shortage of leaves if the order comes and with that it is very difficult to cover all the schools together at one go or in the short period of time possible," said a parent.
On the other hand, RC Jain, who is president of Delhi State Public Schools Management Association for Unaided Recognised Private Schools, states that the petition was made against the diminishing autonomy of private schools under the new guidelines. He said, "We yearn for our independence and autonomy. The government's latest guidelines are hostile towards self-sufficiency of private, non-aided and recognised schools. We contribute towards 40 percent of city's education but we don't have any right to reserve a seat for the ward of our kin's child."
While expressing the positive decision from the court, he said, "We are optimistic about the petition filed by us and if the action is to be taken, it should be taken against the misuse of management quota but it shouldn't be scratched off."
Meanwhile, Sumit Vohra, who founder of admissionnursery.com, said, "Many parents feel it's a big setback and as private unaided are moving to court against new admission guidelines, now they are anxious about case against new guidelines and dissolution of management quota is not stayed."
Although, amidst all chaos, parents hope for unsurpassed order from the court, "I am applying for all the private schools including DPS, Cambridge and Sardar Patel so I hope that the decision should be sensible enough in terms of accommodating the parents grievances also," said Imam Ghani, a resident of south Delhi.

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on January 10, 2014 at 10:55am

See parents reactions after St Columba's got the stay

http://www.admissionsnursery.com/forum/topics/1st-setback-delhi-hc-...

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on January 10, 2014 at 12:35pm

BREAKING NEWS~NO STAY ON NURSERY ADMISSION GUIDELINES 2014-2015-DETAILS WILL BE UPDATED SOON

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Permalink Reply by Santosh Dubey on January 10, 2014 at 12:55pm

Pleased to hear that.

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Permalink Reply by Udit Sawhney on January 10, 2014 at 2:26pm

Awesome news

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Permalink Reply by Suman Kalra on January 10, 2014 at 2:31pm

relieved!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Puneet Arora on January 10, 2014 at 3:12pm

Thanks High Court.

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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on January 10, 2014 at 3:36pm

Very happy that High Court has safeguarded the rights of children. It proves RTE Act is child centric and education has become Universal to ALL and not institutional based.

And now by this order Educational institutions has been prevented from converting into commercial establishments. Education for All and all human beings have right for Education. It's a big happy news parent community of Admissionsnursery.com.

As per the below earlier news Mr.Vohra has rightly quoted about Management Quota seats.

After government order, lobbying for nursery admissions is a thing of past~Sumit Vohra | Millennium Post-25 Dec

After government order, lobbying for nursery admissions is a thing of past

25 December 2013, New Delhi, Varun Bidhuri

After scrapping 20 per cent management quota for nursery admissions in private schools, lobbying by bigwigs to ensure their ward’s admission will be a thing of past.

The orders go a long way towards establishing a check on the commercialisation of education in private unaided schools.

Sumit Vohra, an activist, said, ‘‘I welcomed the abolition of management quota for nursery admissions here. I am happy now that there will be no more bribes and no more approaches from politicians and industrialists.

‘Earlier under the guise of management quota, many schools used to indulge in lobbying with bigwigs and illegally provide admissions to their children, with donations of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 15 lakhs,’ he alleged.